What shmup are you playing now?

[BoneSnapDeez]

I usually feel like I'm "too fast" in Gradius III...

[disloyalhead]

Homura pretty decent shooter!

[ExedExes]

I usually feel like I'm "too fast" in Gradius III...

NEVER!!!!!!! I love being fast, but only if I select Reduce as my ? powerup, which is about 99% of the time.

[pierrot]

I usually feel like I'm "too fast" in Gradius III...

NEVER!!!!!!! I love being fast, but only if I select Reduce as my ? powerup, which is about 99% of the time.

Yeah, I actually feel tremendously slow in Gradius III, as opposed to 1 or 2.

[DocHauser]

Ikaruga is now on Steam Greenlight:

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/f ... =183195387

Not entirely sure why it needs to go via Greenlight, but I guess it should have a good chance of getting released...

[mjmjr25]

Finally got around to popping in Guwange

Wow.

This has everything I love about a good shmup:

Gorgeous sprites
Awesome in-game sound
Unique, but NOT overly complicated play mechanics
Tons of room for strategy and scoring opportunities
Difficulty on par w/the Galuda series

Pics:

Title Screen:


Character Select Sreen (each character has an option they deploy)


In-game, my character is in red and inside the gold orb, my option is blue/white and is out in front of me:

[pierrot]

Yeah, Guwange is a blast. The difficulty gets pretty hellish pretty fast, and it's not well suited for perfectionists with the game-long chaining. (Or maybe it is.) I was really excited to make it to about midway through stage 3 on one credit, while playing for score.

[ExedExes]

Played Ikaruga for the first time in well over a year. It looks WAY better with the GC component cables, and it also supports progressive scan. I cleared out all my old ranking data and ended up with a score that was 20K less than my previous best from 2012. If only I wasn't running into every piece of industrial scenery in stage 2, I'd have made it farther.

[dunpeal2064]

Finally had some time to scratch a bit of that shmup itch with the following:

Dodonpachi DOJ BL: Game is even better than I remember. I was going to warm up with Ketsui, but I find it easier to ignore scoring and get my chops up in this one (since I am shit at chaining). It is still a joy to make it to stage 4 and hear that excellent BGM.

Sengoku Ace: Saw this on my Mame list and realized I'd never tried it out, so I dove in... and ended up playing it for over an hour! It is a bit easier than the average Psikyo shooter (which is fine by me), and I've managed to make it to stage 1-7 so far. I think I'll try to make this my first Psikyo 1-ALL

Fire Barrel: Again, wanted to try something new for a bit. Pretty fun Raiden-esk game by Irem, with some kickass tunes. Like Raiden, you may as well only have one life, as enemies become near-unkillable after losing your powerups.

I think the shmup fever has taken over once again

[Erik_Twice]

I've been trying to kill Crystal Core for one hour and I still get killed by the same exact bullet pattern. Grrrrr.

I suppose he's hard because his level is very easy. Cool, but easy.



I have to say, facing the same boss over and over again has made me realize how well done it is. Now I think the game is better